Post by rockroller on Jun 12, 2015 0:23:35 GMT -5
On part of my trip through Utah with John herchenx last year, we hunted for Ammonites but only ended up finding septarian nodule pieces and other assorted oddities. This is a picture of the largest piece that I found and I am still pondering the best way to cut, trim, and or polish it. John says that his all disintegrated into mud so I'm being very careful with it.
As I said, I found several other pieces of the nodules, many of them are just chunks of the calcite that grows in them. The calcite varies between a root beer color and plain white. I decided to trim one of the smaller pieces which has some of the mud exterior to see if I could get a nice desktop trinket. Upon my first cut I was surprised to find a pattern that I was not expecting behind the calcite that I cut away. And upon further examination I found a very interesting scene in this specimen. I now am calling the piece Devil's Mountain.
Do you see him jakesrocks?
There he is....
Weird huh?
Thanks for looking!
~Roland
As I said, I found several other pieces of the nodules, many of them are just chunks of the calcite that grows in them. The calcite varies between a root beer color and plain white. I decided to trim one of the smaller pieces which has some of the mud exterior to see if I could get a nice desktop trinket. Upon my first cut I was surprised to find a pattern that I was not expecting behind the calcite that I cut away. And upon further examination I found a very interesting scene in this specimen. I now am calling the piece Devil's Mountain.
Do you see him jakesrocks?
There he is....
Weird huh?
Thanks for looking!
~Roland
